3G isn't going to pull 1.5Mb/s like ever. The fastest I have seen is around 900Kb/s

4G LTE gets in to the 14-18Mb/s range, but you can't count on 4G anywhere outside of a major metro. The coverage just doesn't exist.

Verizon now has 4G out in parts of rural VA and are expanding it big time. 3G I wouldn't stream Netflix on but on my cross country trip I almost never went out of Verizon coverage and listened to streaming radio most of the way.

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